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Old 09-22-2008, 08:02 PM   #42
silentm
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Originally Posted by Spiffu View Post
An electrical malfunction caused a leak of sorts, of liquid helium in the acceleration tunnel. So now they have to heat up that section to ambient temperature and fix the problem, then re-cool it back down to near absolute zero. (as in minus 400 degrees or so)
it's -459,67 degrees fahrenheit for y'all yanks or -279.15 degrees centigrade for the rest of the world

and good job finding Gordon, i feel very safe now
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